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It's not just those, apparently also: Basement Jaxx/Gorgon City Bob Sinclar Tiesto Nathan Dawe PNAU Eliza Rose Dasha Ravyn Lenae Dvbss ft. Nelly Furtado Future ft. Tyla Tyla, Ravyn Lenae, Dasha had big hits recently. Eliza Rose and PNAU even had #1s recently. People like Lily Allen, Basement Jaxx, Tiesto, Nelly Furtado, David Guetta, etc, are super famous in this country. But it's no surprise. This happens every single week. Look through previous weeks from the past few years and you'll see a couple dozen famous artists releasing songs every week and (almost) none of them ever chart. Most people just prefer to listen to songs they already know. In 2004 or whatever when the chart was basically ONLY recent releases I feel like most of these songs would've charted in the top 200.

Yeah that's pretty surprising actually. And given Rod Stewart's entry it's at least 1,947!

Should Cliff Richard be added?

Jessie J could be added as she is abrosexual.

Maybe but I think even with one of their old songs. They have a massive discography, broke through in the US, have done mostly dance-pop music and have a plethora of sassy/tongue-in-cheek lyrics which someone might want to use on TikTok one day lol. And yeah a modern dance artist remaking one of their songs and crediting them and making top 10 isn't impossible either.

I wouldn't be that surprised if Pet Shop Boys get in the top 10 again one day.

The David Guetta remix did so well. The original would have done nothing, especially in 2011.

I think Sabrina Carpenter herself is in trouble tbh. She debuted with 1.5 million first day on Spotify last October with her song The Life of a Showgirl, and went from that to barely scraping the top 40 with Such a Funny Way in the space of like 6 months. I'm worried for her.

If Sam Fender does get close to breaking the record like Drake did, it would probably get negative media coverage and probably prompt a rule change from the OCC for the chart. Which might be a good thing in the long run. Although I reckon the media and the public would probably be a lot friendlier to the concept of Sam Fender breaking the record than they were to Drake (he's British, he's crosses over to adult contemporary like Radio 2 so more of the older generations will actually know who he is, his songs use real instruments, etc).

Yeah, but I mean the remix is/was doing really well, I saw it in the top 200 on Spotify a lot so it's boosting the chart position every week.

I don't like that remix that much but at least its helping a lot for the charts.

Nobody would've believed Baby and Eenie Meenie would've been remembered past 2012 at the time, let alone that they'd re-enter the top 40 and be remembered fondly 15 years later. That was the big narrative about most pop songs at the time, let alone Justin Bieber. "Everybody will forget about this in a couple of years".

I used to follow it every week for a while in the late 00's/early 10's. And it absolutely 100% was calculated from real figures (at least back then). They got the sales data for iTunes directly from Apple, and the airplay data directly from themselves (Global). It was highly predictable, I knew roughly where every song would be charting each week. If the charts were made up it would be impossible to predict and I would have noticed glaring errors and inconsistencies every week. It was a completely harmless (and frankly meaningless) chart. Hundreds of radio stations all over the world do their own charts. Some simply rank their most spinned songs for the week, some go by number of requests from their listeners, some get their listeners to vote, some get their DJs to make their own. Given that some platforms like Spotify give out exact streaming figures, some stations now may even be using Spotify data for their own charts without needing a partnership! BBC have a partnership with the OCC so can air the official chart. Global had a partnership with Apple so they could make the Big Top 40 by combining their own airplay with the iTunes sales figures each week. All that said, I have absolutely NO idea how they are calculating it today. Maybe it truly is just made up now (do they even still have the partnership with Apple?).

Well if it's going to be a fan-driven week 1 peak then yeah that might have been better to attain a higher chart position. But if it's going to be an actual hit song I don't think it will matter very much in the long run. Songs like I'm Good by David Guetta or I Had Some Help by Post Malone just continuously built more and more hype while they were unavailable to stream, rather than the opposite.

New songs can and do stick but they don't normally debut at #1 first week. Like Man I Need, Rein Me In, Where is my Husband, Rain Dance. If you debut at #1 it's normally fanbase-driven.

Yeah. I'm absolutely devastated that a straight white male is doing well in the charts. Glad to see someone else on the same page! It's a difficult time for both of us. Stay strong my friend. 😊

That really surprises me. I would have thought it would have done better the first time round if it got so much airplay (at a time when it actually mattered).

Yeah Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart blew me away the first time I heard it. Un-Thinkable was great too but wasn't released as a single here. This country was obsessed with Empire State of Mind Part II Broken Down. It was the most played song on UK radio in 2010 (and that was with the original also being played a lot too).

It really surprises me how long some songs stay on SCR after getting reset honestly. If you assume a song like Mr. Brightside is stable in streams and randomly fluctuating slightly each week, it would work out as a 50% chance of a decline each week, a 25% chance of 2 consecutive declines each week and a 12.5% chance of 3 consecutive declines each week. So if it did get reset, unless it got super lucky with it's random fluctuations, I think you'd expect it to be back on ACR after around 7-9 weeks?

I reckon unfortunately the media coverage about it's climb to #1 probably Rein Me In a new audience. Because there'd probably have been some people not into modern pop music who heard the news and listened out of interest.

Me too. Every single time I've seen that song title on here the past few weeks my mind immediately jumps to Camila Cabello's song lol. The Bella Kay song looks like it's going to be one of the biggest songs of the year so I hope my brain stops making the association every single time or it might get exhausting after a few months. I actually really liked that Camila song though, it was so catchy and sounded quite 00's too.

I Hate This Part was also released in a significantly higher sales climate than Beep to be fair. Downloads exploded a lot between 2006 and 2009.

He might be on to something though. I've never paid much attention to the Apple Music charts but if they are more UK centric the dance songs would do better there by default because those songs are UK centric anyway (at least from a UK-US perspective). I guess the fair way to test this would be whether the Little Mix solo songs, or Dave's songs, do better on Apple Music than Spotify, which I don't know the answer to.

That crazy Choosin Texas has 5 consecutive weeks at #35!

I don't know really, but if fans of an artist want to get their songs to go viral the best thing to do is crowdfund money amongst yourselves and find people with lots of followers of your target audience (or people who have helped songs go viral in the past) and pay them to use the songs. Some people will make a clip with your song for just a few hundred, but the really big people you might have to pay thousands. But you also have to make sure the song is worth it. The wrong song will struggle to go viral. You want songs which have either been hits before so you already know humans like them if they get to hear them, or songs you are sure have real potential to be big.